In the previous article we discussed the meaning of creative block. We introduced the observational block and possible solutions for overcoming it. In this article, we’ll introduce two more types of creative block; the environmental block and the emotional block. Understanding how these occur in reality is an important step in beating them. Let’s quickly… Continue reading Creative Block: Environmental and Emotional
Ultimate Collection of Best Premium WordPress Theme Store
WordPress become a reliable option as a CMS for corporate websites. WordPress not only for bloggers it’s doing most valuable growth in business websites. Today we collect some fabulous resources for Best Premium WordPress Theme Store. App themes App themes is a powerful & robust customer feedback theme for WordPress. All themes are easy to… Continue reading Ultimate Collection of Best Premium WordPress Theme Store
Simple YouTube Menu Effect
Today we’ll show you how to recreate the little menu effect that you can see in the left side-menu on YouTube when watching a video (where it says “Guide”). The menu is made of a little menu icon, a label and a list of menu items that appears when the label or menu icon is… Continue reading Simple YouTube Menu Effect
28 Fresh Free Fonts
In this post we have put together some high quality free fonts. If you like these fonts you might also want to check out our previous posts below. 22 Fresh And Free Fonts For Your Design 30 Free And High Quality Fonts Iron Typeface Fairview Cylburn Mission Gothic Imperio Free Font Distractor free typeface Hiruko Pro… Continue reading 28 Fresh Free Fonts
Freebie: 12 Instagram and Prestalgia Faded Film Photoshop Actions
Faded Film Samples Before After Before After Download the Faded Films Photoshop Actions Photoshop Tutorials
40+ Cool Minimalistic Photoshop Device PSDs
Doing a great and realistic presentation is extremely important if you are selling creative products and services such as apps and website design, themes for WordPress. One of the popular ways to serve the goodies is to make some great quality in action screenshots of the design and functionality. This helps potential customers get an… Continue reading 40+ Cool Minimalistic Photoshop Device PSDs
40 Fresh PSD’s Files For Free Download
With this fresh collection of PSD files, we are trying to help our designers fellows to complete their work easier and more quickly. Every designer knows very well that high quality PSD files are their best friends because when they have high quality PSD files, they do not have to design from the scratch rather… Continue reading 40 Fresh PSD’s Files For Free Download
Promised-Based Validation
The concept of “Promises” has changed the way we write asynchronous JavaScript. Over the past year, many frameworks have incorporated some form of the Promise pattern to make asynchronous code easier to write, read and maintain. For example, jQuery added $ .Deferred(), and NodeJS has the Q and jspromise modules that work on both client… Continue reading Promised-Based Validation
Free 1262 Eldorado Mini Pixel-perfect Icons
License: These icons are free to use in any kind of commercial or non-commercial project unlimited times. Ammount of icons: 1262 Sizes: 40×40 File Types: .png
70+ jQuery Touch Event Plugins – Support Touch Gestures!
As the market for mobile devices with touch screens explodes, more and more websites are optimized for offering mobile visitors an optimal experience. With jQuery touch event plugins it is rather simple to allow touch screen users to interact with and navigate your website using touch gestures! In the recent years, the need to make… Continue reading 70+ jQuery Touch Event Plugins – Support Touch Gestures!
Create Alternate Layouts With the Same Content Using Adobe InDesign CS6
Tutorial Details Difficulty: Beginner Program Used: Adobe InDesign CS6 Screencast Length: 14m 21s One of the most interesting new features of Adobe InDesign CS6 is the possibility of creating Alternate Layouts of the same content in the same InDesign document. In this tutorial you can learn how to make the most of this feature. Vectortuts+
40 New Startup Websites and Landing Pages for Inspiration
Technology and Internet startups are providing a quick method for new businesses to scale. There are so many great ideas out there with founders who are passionate about the cause. Even more developers are getting interested in the startup scene and looking to create their own unique website service. But what are some typical methods… Continue reading 40 New Startup Websites and Landing Pages for Inspiration
30+ Web Design Gallery Websites – Looking For Inspiration?
Web design gallery websites provide developers and designers creative inspiration for their own projects. By collecting the best web designs all over the internet, such websites serve as a key spot for fresh creative ideas. In This post, I have featured more than 40 examples of web design gallery websites that you can use for… Continue reading 30+ Web Design Gallery Websites – Looking For Inspiration?
30+ Hot CSS3 Image Hover Scripts
CSS3 image hover effects is one of the common techniques used in web design to make web pages more interactive and stand out visually. CSS image hover scripts makes it simple to add cool dynamic effects on otherwise “static” images whenever the mouse hovers over them. CSS3 effects are typically created using CSS filter and… Continue reading 30+ Hot CSS3 Image Hover Scripts
How to Create a Detailed Flag Stand Illustration in Adobe Illustrator
In the following steps you will learn how to create a detailed flag stand illustration in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll start with the pole. Using basic tools and vector shape building techniques along with some complex gradients we’ll create the starting shapes. Next, using the Appearance panel, some basic blending techniques plus one or two effects… Continue reading How to Create a Detailed Flag Stand Illustration in Adobe Illustrator
11 Useful CSS Tools To Speed Up Your Design Process
Here we are presenting 11 extremely useful CSS tools that will help you quicken your design process. CSS is the most popular and most widely used programming language that has been used for the website development. This is mainly because CSS is relatively easy to learn as compared to other programming languages. Another reason is… Continue reading 11 Useful CSS Tools To Speed Up Your Design Process
Create a Retro and Futuristic Design in Photoshop
Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Model Nebula Background Abstract Spheres Landscape Step 1 First, start Photoshop and create a new document. This tutorial is also going to be a wallpaper, so the size i’m using is 1920 x 1200. You can follow all the individual settings as shown in the diagram below. Background Create… Continue reading Create a Retro and Futuristic Design in Photoshop
How to use brushes to enhance your portraits in Adobe Photoshop CS6
This tutorial is an example of how a few simple techniques can be used to create a piece of digital artwork using multiple layers, masking, the Brush tool, some basic lighting and one simple noise texture. Using the processes here, you will be able to apply the same techniques to your photomontage and create your… Continue reading How to use brushes to enhance your portraits in Adobe Photoshop CS6
Creating Community: If You Build It They Will Come
The web design community does a lot of things well, and they are praised for those instances. Just as when they do things badly, there is an amount of chiding that comes along with it. Today we are going to look at one of the things the online web design community does the best, and… Continue reading Creating Community: If You Build It They Will Come
Improving Your Site’s User Experience
When it comes to web design, the quality of experience that users have with a site determines whether it’s successful or not – regardless of how visually catchy the design is. A positive experience drives sales and conversions, while a negative one deters visitors from staying or returning. Therefore performance optimization should be a central… Continue reading Improving Your Site’s User Experience
Free Collection of 300 Metro-Style Icons for Designers and Developers
Alessio Atzeni has released Free Collection of 300 Metro-Style Icons for Designers and Developers, Metrize Icons is a free icon set, it works perfectly for your apps or web projects. You may use these icons for both commercial and personal projects and customize them any way you like. Metrize Icons includes: – PSD (Single Shape… Continue reading Free Collection of 300 Metro-Style Icons for Designers and Developers
Create Inspirational 3D Gold Text with Photoshop Extended
Preview of Final Results Step 1 Start by creating a new 1920×1200 pixels document. Select the Text tool and type in your inspirational text. The font we’re using is Bebas Neue and Pacifico. These fonts are free. Adjust the font size and leading to your likings. Use the Free Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd+T or Edit >… Continue reading Create Inspirational 3D Gold Text with Photoshop Extended
Benefits and Drawbacks to Freelancing
Many designers contemplate the thought of whether being self employed as a freelancer, or working for a design firm. Of course there are many benefits and drawbacks to each of them, but your decision is based on whether these benefits and drawbacks are worthy for making your decision.We explain several benefits and drawbacks to freelancing… Continue reading Benefits and Drawbacks to Freelancing
23 Flat Design iPhone Apps
Flat design is becoming increasingly popular in the design and development space. When we say “flat” we are referring to the minimalist approach to design. We remove borders, shadows, variants, 3d elements to come up with a very clean simple and yes flat design. Minimal design has been popular for a while and it seems… Continue reading 23 Flat Design iPhone Apps